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"I have to show you something!" Lucy drags me towards the usual spot behind the trees where no one can see us.

Lucy plops herself down, and I do the same after her.

I can see her looking at me from the side of my eye. "Why do you always wear tights?" Her lips turn downwards.

If she wasn't my friend I would say her face looks like she saw something ugly, but I ignore that.

"I-I like them"

"Even your freaking tights are designer"

I stare at her, "What do you mean designer?"

She rolls her eye and doesn't say anything else, instead she pulls her phone out of her skirt pocket and places it on the floor. After that she pulls a small white box along with a pink lighter.

"Look!" She looks at me with big eyes.

I try to pretend I'm as existed as her because I don't know what the white box is.

Lucy hands it to me, "Open it"

My hands open the white box open. My eyes scrunch together. "Cigarettes?"

Macy grabs her phone from the floor then looks back at me. "Yeah!"

"Lucy! I don't think kids can smoke"

"We aren't kids. Your 12 and i'm 13. Were teenagers. Plus, everyone does it" She moves a loose strand of my hair away from my face. "I don't know..." I don't think teenagers can smoke either.

"Don't your brothers smoke?" She asks me seriously. I start playing with the end of my skirt.

"Yeah" All the time.

"Then? If your brothers do it, then it's okay. If it wasn't they wouldn't do it" She's right. Mother would also do it, she would blow on my face too. Is okay then?

She pulls a cigarette from the box and lights it up. Handing it to me. I just stare at it.

Will I be more like my brothers if I smoke?

"Hold it!"

My hands quickly hold it.

Lucy looks at me expectedly. I look back at the cigarette and slowly bring it close to my mouth.

My heart starts beating faster. I look back at Lucy who is holding her phone.

"Stop looking at me and smoke it" She chuckles with a smile. I try to smile but it comes out more like a grimace.

I can feel her expecting gaze on me.

I bring the cigarette to my mouth and inhale, clueless to what the right way of doing this is.

Instantly I start coughing. Lucy starts patting my back. I can hear the bell ringing signaling recess is over.

Lucy throws the cigarette on the floor and steps of it until is completely off. She proceeded to secure everything back into her pocket then pulls me up from the floor by my hand.

"Let's go!"

"What a-about you?"

"There's no more time, next time" She says rapidly as we run back to the class.

I won't ever do that again, I promise myself in guilt.

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Today was Friday. Lucy was going to be here in a few minutes.

Nanny had done my hair and choose my outfit to be extra special.

My brothers were upstairs working while the twins were in the living room with me. They said they wanted to watch a movie.

My cheek was resting against the arm of the couch. Finally the door rings and I stand up and run towards it. I try to pull it but it doesn't seem to budge.

"Move"

I turn around to see Enzo and Armani walking towards me. Armani puts himself in front of me while Enzo starts to unlock the door. Since when does this door get locked? It's always unlocked!

I try to move to see if it's Lucy but Armani keeps blocking my view.

"Um, is Angelica here?" I recognize Lucy's voice.

"I'm here!" I happily say so Lucy can hear me, bouncing up and down. I know Armani won't move so I fall to the floor and crawl under the space between his and Enzo's leg, successfully making it to the other side. When I stand up I try to get closer to Lucy but Enzo grabs both my arms to pulls me towards him.

Regardless of this, I pay no attention to it because my friend is here. "Lucy!"

"Hi" Lucy puts a strand oh hair behind her ear slowly and starts to blink a lot. "Come in" I pry my arm away from Enzo and grab Lucy's hand.

"Let's go to my room" I start to lead her upstairs but Lucy's head keeps looking behind to the door where my brothers stand.

"Are you okay Lucy?" Her eyes keep blinking a lot, something probably got inside them.

"I'm fine" She rolls her eyes at me.

"Where are your other brothers?" She asks looking around. "They are upstairs working" I think. "Meetings?"

"Nope! Not today, today they're just working on other things" She hums and I smile brightly at her.

I open the big door of my room, "My room!" I bring my hands behind me as I see Lucy's face.

"Wow, your so lucky your brothers are fucking rich" My eyes widen at her words but I don't say anything I just look away.

"What? Never heard cursing before?" She laughs in a not so nice way.

"I have heard bad words" Mother use to say all kinds of them. To me. They would always sound so harsh, and it would always make me feel dirty, or stupid, depending on which one she would say.

"Then?" Lucy looks at me with big eyes. I just shrug and try to smile.

She sights and starts asking questions about things in the room.

We play and talk for a long while. When Nanny comes in to drop off some snacks Lucy says she needs to go to the bathroom and leaves.

I plop a piece of fruit in my mouth. Nanny is the best at choosing snacks!

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Lucy's POV:

She has everything I want.

A huge property, expensive clothes, attractive brother's, and money. And that dumb ass doesn't even realize it. She's stupid.

They literally treat her like a princess. It makes my blood boil because I can't have what she has, and if I can't, then she can't either.

Over the years I've created an image. I've always known my real personally is trash. So now i'm someone likable. I put up an act of a innocent, sweet girl.

Thanks to this I always get away with anything. Because a kind girl like me is harmless.

I'm going to take everything away from her. I'll succeed, im sure of this. I never fail.

I told Angelica I was going to the bathroom. But i'm not.

As I walk up the stairs to the 3rd floor I start fixing my hair and dress. Angelica said her brothers don't allow her to go any further then the 2nd floor, but with what I'm about to show them I'm sure they won't care i'm up there.

I look at all the hallways until I find 5 that stick out. They should be in one of these.

Before I get the chance to knock on the door the handle from the one behind me starts moving. I quickly turn around and come face to face with a tall man. He is a giant!

I notice his hands are covered in tattoos, along with every other part I can see. Despite this I stand my ground. I'm going to do this.

He looks at me. "What are you doing here"

"U-Uh are you Angelica's oldest brother?"

He stays unmoving. "I'm her friend, I need to-"

"Why aren't you downstairs entertaining my sister?"

Entertaining? I'm not a fucking dog!

My ears burn in embarrassment but I try not to show it. "I n-need to show you something" I say fast. "Important, regarding Angelica"

He doesn't say anything just makes a motion to come inside the room he just left from.

When I step inside the big room I notice another tall man that is laying on a couch, and another one sitting across the desk with a cigarette in his mouth. Instantly my blood runs cold. This man, he is more then intimidating.

All of these people aren't good news. I knew this before coming here, everyone knows the Estradas are in some type of illegal business. No one dares to confront them though, they're killers.

They've never killed innocent people, but when it

comes to someone messing with them, they won't show mercy.

Today I can believe all those rumors of them.

Do I really want to do this?

Of course I do. I know that Angelcunt won't throw me under the bus, that's just how she is. Stupid.

"non è amica di Cecilia?" (isn't she Cecilia's friend?) The man who now put out his cigarette asks the one with tattoos. His eyes glued to me.

"Deve dirci qualcosa su Angel" (She needs to tell us something about Angel)

The man on the other side of the desk who i'm assuming is the eldest one here motions me to sit down in the chair in front of him.

Once i'm seated my plan starts, "I'm v-very worried about Angel, u-um lately she's been pushing me to do bad things. Last time she brought something bad to school"

"What did she bring"

"S-she brought cigarettes" I look up at them. I hear the man who was sitting on the couch stand right up. And the two in front of me tense.

I continue, "I told her it was bad, and not to do it, but she wouldn't listen and did it anyway" I force myself to cry.

Then I open my phone and go to the pictures I took of Angelica smoking. With shaky hands I put the phone on the desk. They see it. The pictures.

The eldest one slides the phone back to me and looks at the one in the couch. The one who was laying down tells me to stand up and leads me towards the door. Before we step out the eldest speaks, "Traes a Angelica" (Bring Angelica)

I don't understand what they say, but I know, I did it.

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End of Chapter 22

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Nanny's outfit pink...

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You guys choose her hair